More bad news for Fez

[HBox]

<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16114030/">I'm sorry to even post it.</a></p><p>An FDA panel just dealt a blow to the use of drug eluting stents (DES), heart devices implanted in at least 3 million Americans for life.&nbsp; It said there &quot;safety concerns&quot; for &quot;off label uses.&quot;&nbsp; </p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span></span>More than 60 per cent of patients with the DES have gotten them in such &quot;off label&quot; indications &mdash; including putting them in more than one vessel or patients with complications such as diabetes.</p><p class="textBodyBlack">The problem is that DES carry a greater risk of causing blood clots that can lead to heart attacks and death.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span></span>Yesterday the panel concluded the stents were safe and effective for the &quot;labeled&quot; use of uncomplicated one vessel disease.</p><p class="textBodyBlack">It said if possible all DES patients should get the anti-clotting drug Plavix for 12 months.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span></span>Several of the panelists pointed to a Swedish study of 60,000 patients showing that patients with DES have a 20 per cent higher death rate than those getting the older bare metal stents.</p><p class="textBodyBlack">&nbsp;</p><p class="textBodyBlack">&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[spadanko]

I just came over here to post this... POOR FEZZY!!!!!

[PapaBear]

I saw that report on CNN. The rate of problems, that the doc they interviewed, has seen are about 5 in 1000 patients. He says he gives his patients blood thinners (which Fez is on), and they are fine. The benefits outweigh the risks.

[TheVHD]

<strong>HBox</strong> wrote:<br /><p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16114030/">I'm sorry to even post it.</a></p>An FDA panel just dealt a blow to the use of drug eluting stents (<font style="background-color: #ffff00">DES</font>), heart devices implanted in at least 3 million Americans for life.&nbsp; It said there &quot;safety concerns&quot; for &quot;off label uses.&quot;&nbsp; <p class="textBodyBlack"><span></span>More than 60 per cent of patients with the <font style="background-color: #ffff00">DES</font> have gotten them in such &quot;off label&quot; indications &mdash; including putting them in more than one vessel or <strong>patients with complications such as diabetes.</strong></p><p class="textBodyBlack">The problem is that <font style="background-color: #ffff00">DES</font> carry a greater risk of causing blood clots that can lead to heart attacks and death.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span></span>Yesterday the panel concluded the stents were safe and effective for the &quot;labeled&quot; use of uncomplicated one vessel disease.</p><p class="textBodyBlack">It said if possible all <font style="background-color: #ffff00">DES</font> patients should get the anti-clotting drug Plavix for 12 months.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span></span>Several of the panelists pointed to a Swedish study of 60,000 patients showing that patients with <font style="background-color: #ffff00">DES</font> have a 20 per cent higher death rate than those getting the older bare metal stents. </p><p class="textBodyBlack">&nbsp;</p><p class="textBodyBlack">DES= if you move the D to the end it's ESD... i.e. Is this some kind of code of ESD to give Fez another heart attack and take over the #2 mic???&nbsp; Think about it......</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by TheVHD on 12-8-06 @ 4:50 PM</span>

[FezPaul]

<p><strong><font face="courier new,courier" size="2">Gonna miss Fez.http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f281/FezPaul/emoticons/cry.gif<br /></font></strong></p>

[ralphbxny]

I miss Fez already. The sound board will never fully take his place.

[sailor]

<strong>ralphbxny</strong> wrote:<br />&nbsp;<span style="background-color: #ffff00">He</span> will never fully take <span style="background-color: #ffff00">the sound board's</span> place.<p>&nbsp;<font size="2">Fixed that one for ya.<br /></font></p>